This GitHub project, available from xcdl/xcdl.github.io-source, contains the source files used to generate the XCDL Web Site.

The XCDL Web Site is an organisation GitHub Pages site, stored in the xcdl/xcdl.github.io Git and publicly available from http://xcdl.github.io.

The web site is generated off-line by Jekyll. It cannot be generated by GitHub Pages because it uses Jekyll plug-ins, considered unsafe and disabled by the GitHub Pages instance of Jekyll.

To be able to run the Jekyll build process, the ruby interpreter and the gem tool are required. In OS X 10.10.5, these tools are preinstalled, at least when the Developer Command Line tools are present.

$ ruby --version
ruby 2.0.0p481 (2014-05-08 revision 45883) [universal.x86_64-darwin14]
$ gem --version
2.0.14
$ sudo gem install jekyll
...
$ jekyll --version
jekyll 2.5.3

In addition, the several specific gems are required:

$ sudo gem install redcarpet jekyll-mentions jemoji jekyll-redirect-from jekyll-feed jekyll-sitemap jekyll-last-modified-at

To manage the web site, a local copy of this repository is required.

$ git clone https://github.com/xcdl/xcdl.github.io-source.git xcdl.github.io-source.git

The current development cycle is edit-save-build-view.

The test build can be performed automatically by Jekyll when started in server mode.

$ cd xcdl.github.io-source.git
$ jekyll serve --baseurl "" --trace

The test build result is in the _site_local folder.

To view the result, point the browser to localhost:4000.

The final build can be performed by Jekyll using the build command.

$ cd xcdl.github.io-source.git
$ jekyll build --trace

The final build result is in the _site folder.

This folder is configured as a submodule, linked to the xcdl.github.io project.

To publish, just commit this Git and the new site will be automatically updated.

All blog posts are in the _posts folder.

All web pages are in the pages folder.

As per _config.yml, the default timezone is UTC. For other timezones, set it explicitly as offset (for example +0300)